I'm so glad you liked this! Thanks again for the prompt, it totally took over my brain for a while.
I felt kind of weird about Bacon!Q, because he's the character that changed the most between the canon and this AU, but I love Anthony Bacon and Q and I couldn't help mashing them up together. Anthony Bacon was the most Sisyphean person imaginable, poor guy.
I TOTALLY ship the Queen/M, and if I wasn't terrified of writing Elizabeth there would have been more of it in there. The world wouldn't know what hit it, if they seriously got together. And Scotland! I love that tumblr post, omg. Going to Scotland makes a lot of meta-sense in the movie (see this very good review, reason 5). Going to Scotland almost makes actual-sense when they've got a car and it just takes a few hours - like, I drove from New York to Minnesota this weekend, London to Scotland is not that far. Except on horseback. Going to Scotland makes no sense at all on horseback.
I had to get Shakespeare in there somehow! All of the references and timelines used in this fic were gathered while writing a Shakespeare/Marlowe novel a few years ago. I've since run out of steam, but that kind of research is the gift that keeps on giving.
ANYWAY, thanks for the awesome long comment! Blending modernity into semi-accurate historical settings is pretty much actually my lifestyle, so it's pretty easy to translate that into writing. I'm not sure if I have any explanation for how to do this except "grow up at renaissance faires," haha.
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Re: Yay! I finally have time to read this! :D
Date: 2013-01-21 09:25 pm (UTC)I felt kind of weird about Bacon!Q, because he's the character that changed the most between the canon and this AU, but I love Anthony Bacon and Q and I couldn't help mashing them up together. Anthony Bacon was the most Sisyphean person imaginable, poor guy.
I TOTALLY ship the Queen/M, and if I wasn't terrified of writing Elizabeth there would have been more of it in there. The world wouldn't know what hit it, if they seriously got together. And Scotland! I love that tumblr post, omg. Going to Scotland makes a lot of meta-sense in the movie (see this very good review, reason 5). Going to Scotland almost makes actual-sense when they've got a car and it just takes a few hours - like, I drove from New York to Minnesota this weekend, London to Scotland is not that far. Except on horseback. Going to Scotland makes no sense at all on horseback.
I had to get Shakespeare in there somehow! All of the references and timelines used in this fic were gathered while writing a Shakespeare/Marlowe novel a few years ago. I've since run out of steam, but that kind of research is the gift that keeps on giving.
ANYWAY, thanks for the awesome long comment! Blending modernity into semi-accurate historical settings is pretty much actually my lifestyle, so it's pretty easy to translate that into writing. I'm not sure if I have any explanation for how to do this except "grow up at renaissance faires," haha.